The Study of Korean Colloquial Utterance Verbs ‘얘기하다’

Based on the analysis of corpus, this article aims to examine various construction of the utterance verb ‘얘기하다' that mainly used in spoken language and describe its characteristics. To this end, various '얘기하다' construction were divided into basic construction that can assume the counterpart of the utterance and other construction that do not assume the counterpart of the utterance. Again, in the basic syntax, the meaning of the noun '이야기(story)' was expanded by dividing it into self- and other syntax and citation syntax. In other construction, we examined the pattern in which the meaning of '얘기하다' as a general utterance verb occurs as a construction that limits the manner of speech or indicates the result of the utterance. We also compared '얘기하다' with other related construction. Through this, it was shown that '얘기하다' was a colloquial utterance verb that expanded its meaning in the meaning of the noun 이야기(story)' and developed into a general utterance verb similar to '말하다'.